The googly-eyed 'stuffed fox' revealed to be a thylacine

from Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

When a badly stuffed "fox head" was advertised by a UK auction house, James Cranfield quickly worked out that it was a "priceless" head of a thylacine.The taxidermist and collector won the two-way bidding war for "the find of a lifetime."How important is this specimen of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger?

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